What's the difference between ruffianish and thuggish?
Ruffianish
Definition:
(a.) Having the qualities or manners of a ruffian; ruffianly.
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Thuggish
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(1) #IfTheyGunnedMeDown tackled the way in which people of colour, especially men, are represented in the media (hint: usually as thuggish and criminal).
(2) In the Russian gallery, for example, the courageous Vadim Zakharov presents a pointed version of the Danaë myth in which an insouciant dictator (of whom it is hard not to think: Putin) sits on a high beam on a saddle, shelling nuts all day while gold coins rain down from a vast shower-head only to be hoisted in buckets by faceless thuggish men in suits.
(3) Jailed twice for assault as a youngster, Yanukovych has thrived in the thuggish world of Ukrainian politics.
(4) Jim Ratcliffe , the Ineos founder and chairman, says: "We cannot tolerate the thuggish intimidation of managers, suppliers and customers by out-of-control unions.
(5) Cretz cabled that "the regime remains essentially thuggish in its approach".
(6) Promising an immediate inquiry, the Metropolitan Police Commissioner, Sir Paul Stephenson, condemned what he called "thuggish, loutish behaviour by criminals" and conceded his officers had failed to plan for violence.
(7) He has largely shunned media interviews since 1995, when CBS's 60 Minutes depicted him as a thuggish neo-Nazi.
(8) And "Authors Guild" president Roxana Robinson says Amazon is like "Tony Soprano" and "thuggish" .
(9) And thuggish, sometimes; look at what he said about the Roma.
(10) A few thuggish Labour loyalists, mistakenly thinking they were doing their master’s bidding, came to give it a dutiful kicking.
(11) But authors dismissed the latest twist in a dispute that has seen the world's largest bookseller accused of "thuggish behaviour" as a PR stunt, arguing that slashing the price of ebooks could devalue their work.
(12) The hack was “thuggish”, she said, but as is usual with Fancy Bear, the very public attack masked an intended chilling effect: “We also think there’s very much an element of retaliation against Yuliya Stepanova,” Gidwani said.
(13) Inevitably, this led to confrontation with Kadyrov, Chechnya's thuggish tsar.
(14) "The publicly conveyed threat to the PSNI delivered by the highest levels of Sinn Féin that they will reassess their attitude to policing if Gerry Adams is charged is a despicable, thuggish attempt to blackmail the PSNI.
(15) Whoever you blame – tabloids, overcautious broadcasters, thuggish comics – the fact that comedy's cause celebres are now routines about Rebecca Adlington's looks and Russell Brand's prank phone-calls suggest the nadir has been reached.
(16) He can certainly do humble, gentle giant, amoral, uncouth, even thuggish, but critics have always credited him with an underlying sensitivity and intelligence.
(17) There were howls of outrage at the sheer thuggishness of it, and there were demands for an apology, but hardly a squeak to suggest the Mail should be banned from doing this sort of thing.
(18) As for "democratic", Modi ran his home state like an autocrat, giving thuggish lieutenant Amit Shah no fewer than 10 portfolios.
(19) "I call on the White House to conduct a transparent, government-wide review aimed at assuring the American people that these thuggish practices are not under way at the IRS or elsewhere in the administration against anyone, regardless of their political views."
(20) A nyone who cares about language has been repeatedly appalled by the crudeness of Donald Trump’s rhetoric and by the thuggishness of the directives issued by Trump and his cohorts.